r/law • u/bendubberley_ • 15h ago

Legal News The judge in the Lindsay Clancy case is admonishing jurors who are refusing to follow his instructions

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u/jonniezombie 13h ago

He is saying the opposite of that. The jury believed the person on trial, when they gave witness testimony that they didn’t do it. They believed this more than the evidence against them.

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u/gh0stwriter1234 12h ago

Depends on what the evidence is... if its merely circumstantial evidence that might not be enough. Because it comes down their word vs the other person's.

I know someone that nullified a drug charges case, because they could not prove the person had put them shrooms in their backpack themselves and it wasn't just stashed there during a party by someone else.

There was no video of them putting the shrooms in there or having them in their possession only they were found in their backpack which was not with them at the time. Basically there was not 100% certainty that they put them there.